trains ships and barges

• To move men away from the Western Front to hospitals on the coast, trains were used.
• In the first few months, the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) had to use industrial good trains to transport the injured.
• It wasn’t until November 1914 that the first trains specifically designed for the injured came into service. They had spaces for stretchers fitted down both sides of each carriage
• By 1915 many were worried that the high amount of trains carrying injured were causing disruption for trains carrying weapons.
• Canal barges began to be used to free up the railways. Although slow, it was much comfier and it meant soldiers could bypass Base Hospitals and be transferred straight to ships destined for Britain.